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Google Code-in 2014: Welcome to the Winners Circle

Monday, February 2, 2015

The time has finally come to announce the Google Code-in 2014 Finalists and Grand Prize Winners. With 658 students completing a whopping 3,236 tasks in the seven week open source contest, this was the largest and most exciting contest to date. Students wrote code, added features to software, fixed bugs, created documentation, designed logos, and found fun new ways to introduce other students to open source software development. The quality of the work the teens submitted was as inspiring as it was impressive.

A big congratulations to all of the students who participated in this year’s contest! We hope you enjoyed learning more about the open source organizations you worked with and will continue contributing to open source in the years to come.

Mentors and Organization Administrators from each of the 12 organizations that students worked with evaluated the comprehensive body of work of the ten students who completed the most tasks with their organization. They had a very difficult time choosing only 2 Grand Prize Winners and 3 Finalists for their organizations.

The 24 Grand Prize Winners are listed below alphabetically by first name with their home country and the organization they worked with during the Google Code-in 2014 contest.

Aleksandar Ivanov, Bulgaria - Mifos Initiative

Anurag Sharma, India - Sahana Software Foundation

Chaitya Shah, United States - OpenMRS

Danny Wu, Australia - Wikimedia Foundation

Dariel Kremov, Bulgaria - Copyleft Games Group

Getulio Sanchez, Paraguay - Drupal

Ignacio Rodríguez, Uruguay - Sugar Labs

Ilya Kowalewski, Ukraine - KDE

Josef Gajdůšek, Czech Republic - Haiku

Marc Tannous, Romania - BRL-CAD

Mariusz Obajtek, Poland - Mifos Initiative

Mateusz Maćkowski, Poland - Wikimedia Foundation

Michal Proszek, Poland - Copyleft Games Group

Mikhail Ivchenko, Russian Federation - KDE

Namanyay Goel, India - FOSSASIA

Parker Erway, United States - OpenMRS

Peter Amidon, United States - BRL-CAD

Puck Meerburg, Netherlands - Haiku

Sam Parkinson, Australia - Sugar Labs

Samarjeet Singh, India - FOSSASIA

Samsruti Dash, India - Sahana Software Foundation

Stanislav Kryvenko, Ukraine - Apertium

Sushain Cherivirala, United States - Apertium

Tasya Rukmana, Indonesia - Drupal

The 24 Grand Prize Winners will be flown to Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters along with a parent or guardian in early June for a four night stay. Students will talk with Google engineers, take part in an awards ceremony, enjoy time exploring San Francisco and make new friends also interested in technology and open source. One mentor from each organization will also join in the fun of the grand prize trip, giving both students and mentors the opportunity to meet in person and exchange ideas on open source development.

The 36 Finalists for Google Code-in 2014 are listed below. The Finalists will all be receiving a Google Code-in hooded sweatshirt along with their Google Code-in t-shirt and certificate.

Apertium

BRL-CAD

Copyleft Games

Joonas Kylmala

Aditya Gulati

Jakub Kuleszewicz

Olexiy Savenkov

Sidorenko Nikolay

Samuel Kim

Vignesh Varadarajan

Yash Mockoul

Tobias Shapinsky

Drupal

FOSSASIA

Haiku

Akshay Kalose

Alvis Wong

Augustin Cavalier

Ilkin Musaev

Amr Ramadan

Chirayu Desai

Mark Klein

Tymon Radzik

Markus Himmel

KDE

Mifos Initiative

OpenMRS

Daniel Pastushchak

Kevin Kuo

Evgeny Shulgin

Nuno Hultberg

Mohammed Nafees

Imran Tatriev

Sergey Popov

Sanjay Ravindra

Ungku Zoe Anysa Faiz

Sahana

Sugar Labs

Wikimedia

David Greydanus

Cristian Garcia

Evan McIntire

Sai Vineet

Daksh Shah

Geoffrey Mon

Vipul Sharma

Jae Eun Park

Pranav Kumar

A huge thanks to all of the students, mentors, and organization administrators that made Google Code-in 2014 amazing! And a big thank you to the teachers, parents and friends that helped encourage students to participate in the contest.

We will have more posts in the coming weeks with statistics about Google Code-in 2014 as well as writeups from this year’s Grand Prize Winners.